March 13, 2018 updates Posted on March 13, 2018June 28, 2020 by Doug Loss Interstellar communication. II. Application to the solar gravitational lens https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576517311712 The optimisation of low-acceleration interstellar relativistic rocket trajectories using genetic algorithms (not new, but interesting) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576516308827 Limits and signatures of relativistic spaceflight https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576517305143 Are We the First: Was There Life Before Our Solar System? https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780128119402000149 Placing Outer Space: An Earthly Ethnography of Other Worlds http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aman.12984/full It’s a great big universe: Astrobiology and future trends for an astrotheology http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/dial.12370/full Statistical Challenges in Exoplanet Detection http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781118445112.stat07939/abstract A White Paper Submitted to The National Academy of Science’s Committee on Exoplanet Science Strategy: Observing Exoplanets with the James Webb Space Telescope https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03730 Inner Super-Earths, Outer Gas Giants: How Pebble Isolation and Migration Feedback Keep Jupiters Cold https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03648 Precision Space Astrometry as a Tool to Find Earth-like Exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03732 Exploring Extreme Space Weather Factors of Exoplanetary Habitability https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03751 Exoplanet Diversity in the Era of Space-based Direct Imaging Missions https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03812 Vortex coronagraphs for the Habitable Exoplanet Imaging Mission (HabEx) concept: theoretical performance and telescope requirements https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03909 EarthFinder: A Precise Radial Velocity Probe Mission Concept For the Detection of Earth-Mass Planets Orbiting Sun-like Stars https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03960 Planetary Candidates from K2 Campaign 16 https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.04091 Towards completing Planetary Systems: The role of minor bodies on life growth and survival https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.04010 Survival of a planet in short-period Neptunian desert under effect of photo-evaporation https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.04278 Recognizing the Value of the Solar Gravitational Lens for Direct Multipixel Imaging and Spectroscopy of an Exoplanet https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.04319